More Than Medicine

S2E383 - MTM - Christmas In The Middle East

Published: December 13, 2025

Duration: 29:03

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A concrete-walled hospital, two open wards, and a handful of nurses training students to shoulder the work—our story begins there, in late-1970s Gaza, where medicine, faith, and friendship intersected with daily need. Carlotta shares how a verse in Luke moved her from homebody to journeyman nurse, and how routine dawn rounds gave way to something bigger: home health across packed refugee camps, conversations over wound care, and a classroom that doubled as a laboratory for courage.

We pull back the curtain on a Christmas Eve few imagine. As part of...